lascivity

noun

"lascivity" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“lascivity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lasciviousness

Corpus desk

Index EN-lascivity · lascivity · English

lascivity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "L" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for lascivity
PropertyValue
Headwordlascivity
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “lascivity” in English

lascivitysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

lascivity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "lasciviousness".

No generated misspelling entries exist for lascivity in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin lascīvitās. The correct English form is lascivity, spelled L-A-S-C-I-V-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    lasciviousness

Etymology

From Latin lascīvitās.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lascivity"?
"lascivity" is spelled L-A-S-C-I-V-I-T-Y.
What does "lascivity" mean?
As a noun, "lascivity" means: lasciviousness
What is the origin of the word "lascivity"?
From Latin lascīvitās. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list